Maeve Binchy is one of today's most successful and best-loved authors, read all over the world and translated into 30 languages. All her most recent novels have been Sunday Times No.1 bestsellers and Guardian fastsellers. There are now over 6.5 million copies of Maeve Binchy Orion paperbacks in print and she always receives terrific reviews: 'In TARA ROAD the extraordinary Maeve Binchy spins an irresistible tale of modern life, creating a world so packed with telling details and emotional perspicacity that you feel instantly connected to the heartbroken Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine' Elle. 'Full of characteristic humour and warmth, a lovely read' Sunday Mirror. 'This is Binchy at her very best, telling stories with charm, humour and pathos' Mail on Sunday. 'Absorbing and delightful' Sunday Times. 'She is an extraordinarily adept storyteller ... quite simply streets ahead of her rivals in the bestseller business' Irish Times. In the top 100 bestselling Irish titles Maeve Binchy occupies seven of the top twenty places including the number one slot.

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and came to fame first as London Correspondent for the Irish Times. Her first novel, Light A Penny Candle made her famous in the UK and USA. She lives in County Dublin with her husband, Gordon Snell.